How to prevent redirecting <a href="#something"> in Angular Js1.2

Question

I was using AngularJs-1.0.7 and Bootstrap in my application. Recently I migrated from AngularJs-1.0.7 to AngularJs-1.2. I am using Bootstrap's Accordions and Tabs.

Html code for Tab contains <a href="#id_for_content"> as shown below.

<ul id="myTab" class="nav nav-tabs">
    <li class="active"><a href="#firstTab" data-toggle="tab">Home</a></li>
    <li><a href="#secondTab" data-toggle="tab">Profile</a></li>
</ul>

<div id="myTabContent" class="tab-content">
    <div class="tab-pane fade in active" id="firstTab">
      <p>Content for first tab.</p>
    </div>
    <div class="tab-pane fade" id="secondTab">
      <p>Content For second tab.</p>
    </div>
</div>

In Angular's old versions, route change happens only if we give anchor tag like <a href="#/firstTab">. But AngularJs-1.2 redirects <a href="#firstTab">. It doesn't consider the / in between # and firstTab. Hence while clicking on Tab it redirects to http://web_url/#/firstTab . How to solve this issue?

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My Solution

I found a solution for this issue. I wrote a directive for a tag. In that directive I checked for href attribute. If it matches prevent from its default behavior. Check the following code.

app.directive('a', function() {
    return {
        restrict: 'E',
        link: function(scope, elem, attrs) {
            if(attrs.href === '#firstTab'|| attrs.href === '#secondTab'){
                elem.on('click', function(e){
                    e.preventDefault();
                });
            }
        }
   };
}); 

But the problem with this method is, I have to check each and every tab ids or accordion ids here. If I use dynamic Ids for them, its not possible to check in directive.

If you can find better solution, let us all know about it.

Answer 1

Just add this to your links:

target="_self"

And you're ready ;)